December 2008
47 posts
New Year's Meme
Via dawnowar siddman:mascarah:lenachen)
In 2008, I gained: weight. I lost: my camera. I stopped: exercising. I started: working too hard I was hugely satisfied by: ending it when I had to. And frustrated by: the fact that I had to end it.
I am so embarrassed that I: thought people were searching our cars, when it was actually just a guy with a torch. Once again, I: kept drinking. Once again, I...
I declutter my things regularly and often
I’m surprised at how much stuff I have that I am unwilling to part with.
(via dawnowar)
I am going to start doing this. Seriously.
Kid's Got A Future
Walking along the street before, a little girl, maybe five years old, ran past me and a few steps later there was the sound of a coin hitting the floor. She stopped and turned around and I stopped walking and looked down at the floor to see what it was.
There was a £2 coin by my foot, and we both saw it at the same time. I said, “You dropped some money” as I bent down to pick it...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
Fighting With Wire (11)
Against Me! (11)
Straylight Run (11)
The Sunshine Underground (11)
Between the Buried and Me (10)
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Getting Things Done: Get Things Done by... →
I’m taking this idea to work next year. Not everything has to be perfect. Most things just need to be ‘good enough’.
I'm wearing brand new boxers AND brand new socks. ...
“I kicked my granddad’s ass at tennis on the Wii. I don’t think he...”
– Catching up with friends after Christmas
Abandoned London →
dailymeh:
Xmas morning is the only time that London is (almost) empty of humans - so a morning spent cycling around town taking photos.
Interesting, though I assume it would be more so if I were more familiar with how London usually looks like, full of people.
I like the ones where you can just see a lone person or a car somewhere. There aren’t many of them, but it’s strange how...
50 Things We Know Now That We Didn't Know Last... →
(via jakec)
Watch
Carl Honore doesn’t think much about the speedy lifestyle most of us live:
Right across the world, people are doing the unthinkable: they’re slowing down and finding that although conventional wisdom tells you that if you slowdown you’re roadkill, the opposite turns out to be true. That by slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: they eat better, they make...
Bring it on.
(via lfarm : ginobambino : englishgirls)
Write a post on your blog telling your readers SEVEN things about yourself they are not very likely to know (through the blog specifically or people in general might not know) about you!
1. All the scars on my body are on my left side.
2. I hate getting my hair cut. I’ve been known to walk towards the hairdressers but then wuss out and...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
The Sunshine Underground (11)
Against Me! (11)
Straylight Run (11)
Fighting With Wire (11)
Between the Buried and Me (10)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Yawn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
There was half an hour today where I had the urge to yawn, and I did, but it didn’t hit the spot. I still had that feeling, kind of at the back of my throat, that I needed to have one massive yawn. I finally got rid of it.
Anyway, in the meantime, I read this article and I really enjoyed it.
This probably just made you yawn. Sorry.
Year End Lists for 2008 →
peterwknox:
allisonandgeoffrey:
If you’re a fan of year-end lists, here’s a list of all year-end 2008 lists (everything from Advertising to Videos) - G
Wow timesuck.
These things always cost me a fortune, but I love them.
If lager was Coke, Santa would still be wearing...
We gave out our Secret Santa presents at work today, and I got a gift box of four bottles of European lager (Grolsch, Becks, Heineken & Carlsberg). It reminded me of something that happened a couple of years ago, that I wrote about somewhere else at the time:
I was in the Co-Op earlier this evening, buying a 4-pack of Grolsch. I was paying for it and the guy behind me in the queue pointed...
Film Addict: How many of IMDB's Top 250 have you... →
(via peterwknox : bg5000)
48%. I really tailed off badly towards the end.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-14) →
Nada Surf (13)
Saves the Day (11)
The Last Shadow Puppets (11)
Glasvegas (10)
Anberlin (9)
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I've just seen the biggest shooting star I've ever...
That’s what she said. But seriously, I did. It was huge. And strangely silent. It was so big and bright, it seems like it should have made some noise.
“Luther said I could learn some things from you. I already know how to drink.”
– Johnny Hooker in The Sting.
I love it when you just stumble on great films when they’re on TV in the midde of the day.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-7) →
The Subways (39)
Fighting With Wire (25)
Hüsker Dü (20)
Frank Turner (13)
thisGIRL (12)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-11-30) →
The Subways
Frank Turner
Explosions in the Sky
Guns N’ Roses
Hell Is for Heroes
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Shine A Light
Since the clocks went back a few weeks ago, I’ve helped out an unusually high number of drivers who have forgotten to turn their headlights on. You always get a few (and I’ve been guilty a couple of times in the past), but I’m talking maybe 15 people in around five weeks.
It’s strange, because there’s no standard gesture. It depends on the situation. If...